November 2 - 4, 2018

Spring Skills: Building voice applications with Spring

Saturday - Nov 3 3:15 PM
- MARLBOROUGH

Craig Walls

Author of Spring in Action

As a software developer, you've likely come across at least one veteran in our field who has shared tales of the old days when they used punch cards to give instructions to a computer. Thankfully, those days are long gone. Over time, the way we interact with machines has evolved through various stages such as textual, graphical, and touch/gestural user interfaces…up to today where Siri, Alexa, and Google Home are ushering in a new era of voice user interfaces.

In this session, we'll focus on Alexa, the voice assistant present in Amazon's line of Echo devices. We'll explore the Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) and see how to construct voice UIs (known as “skills”) to do our bidding. We'll see how to back those skills using Spring, including Spring MVC and Spring Cloud Function. And maybe, one day, we'll tell future generations about how we once had to actually touch computers.

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About Craig Walls

Craig Walls is a principal engineer with Pivotal and is the author of Spring in Action and Spring Boot in Action. He's a zealous promoter of the Spring Framework, speaking frequently at local user groups and conferences and writing about Spring. When he's not slinging code, Craig is planning his next trip to Disney World or Disneyland and spending as much time as he can with his wife, two daughters, 2 birds and 3 dogs.